Design For Change Contest

“Polythene Ka Maal Jee Ka Janjjal”

Satya Bharti School, Budha KheraDistrict – Kaithal, Haryana

Bharti Foundation

• Bharti Foundation

– Bharti Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Bharti Group Companies.

– The prime objective is to bridge the existing education divide and make quality education accessible to underprivileged children in rural India.

– The Foundation aims to help underprivileged children and young people of our country realize their potential.

• Satya Bharti School Program

– The Satya Bharti School Program is the flagship program of Bharti Foundation.

– It aims to deliver free quality education to underprivileged children, with special focus on the girl child across rural India.

– Present Operational Status:

• Number of Schools Operational: 236

• States of Operation: Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh & Tamil Nadu

• Number of Students Enrolled: Over 30,000

Introduction

• Geographical Location :

Budha Khera is at a distance of 14 kms from the District Kaithal.

Address : Village- Budha Khera, Block - Kaithal, District-Kaithal, Haryana

• Cultural Background :

Major casts are : Jat, Nai, Chamar, Kumhar etc.

Main Festival : Dewali, Teej, Raksh Bandhan

Dominating cast : Jat

Main source of earning : Agriculture, livestock and labor.

Population : 7000 Apprx.

• Our Students : underprivileged children of rural area.

About the Community and Students

• School Staff

Mentor Teacher's : Mr. Guldeep Singh

: Ms. Anju Sindhwani

Contact No. : 09729056989

• Support Team

Cluster Coordinator : Mr. Sachin Ashapure

Contact No. : 09896373281

District Coordinator : Mr. Niraj Dubey

Contact No. : 09896463379

Team Responsible:

Students Participating in the Contest:

S.No. State District SchoolNo. of students

participatingName of student

Class

1

Haryana KaithalBudha Khera

Gulshan V

2 Monu V

3 Sandeep V

4 Anshul V

5 Vikas V

6 Manju V

7 Mareena V

8 Jyoti V

9 Renu V

10 Ruby V

11 Hansram V

12 Khushiram V

13 Suresh V

14 Manish V

15 Anju V

16 Sahil V

17 Ankit V

Polythene ka maal jee ka janjaal

SBS Budha Khera

In general we think that polythene is a problem of big cities but for small viliages it is also dangerous so as a change maker we changed the mind set of village community.

Created awareness among the villagers about the destructive impact of using polythene

Provided better, cost effective and eco friendly alternatives for polybags.

While the children taken a round of village during their field visit and saw every where polythene waste, they have taken it as great concern. They have decided to run a campaign for that. During the campaign these students shown their great interest and given some positive views as Sandeep a boy in 5th class says,” our surrounding is full with dust and wastage.” Vikas add “Polybags have major part in it.” Monu joins the discussion by saying these (polybags) are scattered everywhere. These kinds of responses makes us feel think differently. Polybags can’t be destroyed till thousands of years. It makes us feel threatened. Threats were more threatening because of the fact that most of the people know how polythene is dangerous !

Problem was critical and it is so difficult to work on this in a short period. A lot of thinking was made on the ideas that can help us.

Why polythene is popular among people?

It is low cost, easily available thing.

Option- preparing different sizes of eco friendly envelopes of newspapers by using wheat floor made adhesive. In village most of people are formers and in their housed plenty of gunny bags available. We have decided to collected cloth made gunny bags from community along with Rs 5.

Panchayat meeting, Conversation with villagers, Writing slogans on public places, March past was led by shouting slogans against , Common pledge, Developed rationality & scientific thinking. We started our campaign on Sept. 25. We don’t say no-never but low-lesser. Avoid use of polythene as much as possible.

Rally with banners and slogans.

Students went shop to shop , carrying paper envelopes.

Interchange of paper envelopes with Polly bags. Advised the shopkeeper to use paper envelopes as these are eco-friendly. We have replaced available stock of poly bags with paper envelops.

we have prepared cloth bags with the help of local tailor and distributed them Door to door. Also advised to take with him/her while going to shop or market for shopping.

Signing of pledge

I, the resident of village Budha Khera, here affirms that I shall not use polythene to the extent it is possible.

Victorious Moments

Children showing their happiness over the feedback they got.

Beginning was, though, little bit nervous because any change seemed too hard but during campaign children’s confidence get increased and it seemed that they were going ahead like a wave of change. They have made it possible. Now most of the customer can be seen coming out from the village’s shop having things in paper envelopes and villagers often appear going to the market having different types and sizes of clothes bags. Two stalls are preparing paper’s envelope. Tailors are sewing clothes’ bags.

. Gulshan, Monu, Anshul, Sandeep, Vikas, Manju, Marjeena, Jyoti, Renu, Rubi, Hansraj, Khushi Ram, Suresh, Manish, Anju, Sahil & Ankit

Thanking You